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Cultivating mindfulness, compassion through meditation
Western News
By Keri Ferguson
January 19, 2022
If you resolved to develop a regular meditation practice in 2022, you can get there - one breath at a time, for just five minutes a day. It's an approach that led Tanaz Javan, BA'11, MSc'15, to become a devoted practitioner.
She's also a guided meditation instructor for Living Well @ Western, helping employees focus on their emotional and spiritual well-being. The next series of "Meditation with Tanaz" starts Monday, Jan. 24, at noon on Zoom.
"I've always been interested in contemplative practices," Javan said. Raised in Iran, in the homeland of Persian poet Rumi, she "grew up looking at the universe through a more spiritual lens" (continue reading).
